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Modernity for Kolkata: KMOMA
Kolkata, that long-time bastion of turn-of-the-century culture, and the home of Bangla gentility, is ready to take its place among the great art cities of the world. London has its Tate Modern, New York has its MoMA, and now Kolkata will have KMOMA — the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art. Needless to say, design ...
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Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011
The sun is just about managing to shrug off a rather cold winter in London and what better way to showcase a bit of optimism than this year’s Brit Insurance Design Awards. The nominees have been announced and the top floor of the Design Museum has been taken over by the functional, amusing and in ...
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Image of the Week: John Stezaker
The best visual tickle I’ve had this week was at Whitechapel Gallery’s exhibition of the works of British artist John Stezakar. Comprised of his collage works from the 1970s to the present, the exhibition reflects his engagement with the acts of looking and perceiving. Each collage splices together found postcards, images form newspaper clips and ...
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Crafts of India & the Delhi Metro: an Unlikely Conversation
The city is an exciting space in which traditional and modern narratives collide to create fresh dialogue. The introduction of art in public spaces is something that is a guaranteed catalyst for such conversations to emerge and grow, provided people are allowed to interact with it free from the imposed agendas of the establishment. It ...
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Image of the Week: The India Court
In tracing the history of exhibition design in India, I found this image in the V&A archives. Arguably the first “trade fair” ever to exhibit the work of Indian craftsmen, artists and makers in an international setting, the Indian Court at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations held in the ...
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A Space for Dialogue: Concrete Memories
Berlin is a city that combines the old and the new in interesting ways. Synchronal is the word that best describes it, referring to that which occurs or exists at the same time or having the same period or phase. Past, present and future are inextricably bound here in a manner that is not seen ...
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London and the Anti Design Festival
London’s reputation for being a design-friendly city is cemented in a PR blitzkrieg brought on by the annual London Design Festival (LDF). A wide-ranging, provocative mix of events, talks, installations, exhibitions, trade shows, seminars and publications, it’s become something of a must-see event that all design and lifestyle magazines love to cover as the “event ...
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SHOWHOW Walks the Talk
The Danish Design Centre presented Denmark’s up and coming talents in the field of sustainable design at this year’s Tent London exhibition, part of the London Design Festival. The SHOWHOW exhibition was remarkable enough for the work it featured, but what caught my attention even more was the design of the exhibition structure itself: Image ...
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Image of the Week: Venice Biennale
A woman takes a picture of a model house at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Photo: David Levene for the Guardian This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale has been hailed as an event that puts the human experience back at the heart of architecture. If, like me, you’re jaded by the “cool” but rather meaningless plans and ...